Yes... it was nail biting. We at the back end were waiting, chewing our nails and looking anxiously as the counter kept going up. From 150 left till the mark was finally achieved it went pretty fast but at that moment time seemed to have stopped.
I was on the mod queue and finally at 4,99,997 post I was feverishly hoping that some newbie will not post a double or cause some other violation to force me to delete that post.
I was also hoping that a newbie post will complete the 5lac mark for us. But it did not happen that way.
It would have been fantastic if a newbie post would have taken us to the mark. Would have been very symbolic. But the thing still remains we are now a Big Board. And that is very meaningful and important.